{"id":448,"date":"2022-03-19T10:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T10:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/19\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-march-19th\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T10:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T10:24:37","slug":"talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-march-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/19\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-march-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 19th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fancy a trip to Coconut Mall?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We&#8217;ve needed a calm week here at Nintendo Life, and it sure seemed that way until the release of Wave 1 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mario_kart_8_deluxe_booster_course_pass_wave_1\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass<\/a>. If you&#8217;re not a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/mario_kart_tour\">Mario Kart Tour<\/a> fan, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-not-a-mario-kart-tour-fan-mario-kart-8-deluxe-dlc-gives-you-the-best-of-both-worlds\">this DLC is for you<\/a>! Plus you can check out what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/mario-kart-8-deluxe-booster-course-pass-wave-1\">we think of wave 1<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/persona_4_arena_ultimax\">Persona 4 Arena Ultimax<\/a> also got a Switch port, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/persona-4-arena-ultimax\">in our review<\/a> we say that more Persona on Switch is a good thing!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On to the news, we<\/em> <em>got a surprise in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/three-sega-genesis-games-have-been-added-to-nintendo-switch-onlines-expansion-pack\">three new Sega Genesis games<\/a> for the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pass. The final trailer for the <strong>Sonic The Hedgehog 2<\/strong> movie dropped, and the poster is a cheeky nod to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/random-sonic-2-movie-poster-gives-fans-the-major-sonic-2sday-feels\">the original game&#8217;s box art<\/a>. We also found out the <strong>Mario Strikers<\/strong> series could&#8217;ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/super-mario-strikers-originally-started-out-as-a-platformer\">a platforming one<\/a>, and we now know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/monster_hunter_rise\">Monster Hunter Rise<\/a><strong>:<\/strong> <strong>Sunbreak<\/strong> is out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/monster-hunter-rise-sunbreak-gets-a-release-date-and-new-amiibo\">on 30th June<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-march-19th\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 19th)<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fancy a trip to Coconut Mall?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We&#8217;ve needed a calm week here at Nintendo Life, and it sure seemed that way until the release of Wave 1 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mario_kart_8_deluxe_booster_course_pass_wave_1\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass<\/a>. If you&#8217;re not a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/mario_kart_tour\">Mario Kart Tour<\/a> fan, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-not-a-mario-kart-tour-fan-mario-kart-8-deluxe-dlc-gives-you-the-best-of-both-worlds\">this DLC is for you<\/a>! Plus you can check out what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/mario-kart-8-deluxe-booster-course-pass-wave-1\">we think of wave 1<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/persona_4_arena_ultimax\">Persona 4 Arena Ultimax<\/a> also got a Switch port, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/persona-4-arena-ultimax\">in our review<\/a> we say that more Persona on Switch is a good thing!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On to the news, we<\/em> <em>got a surprise in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/three-sega-genesis-games-have-been-added-to-nintendo-switch-onlines-expansion-pack\">three new Sega Genesis games<\/a> for the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pass. The final trailer for the <strong>Sonic The Hedgehog 2<\/strong> movie dropped, and the poster is a cheeky nod to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/random-sonic-2-movie-poster-gives-fans-the-major-sonic-2sday-feels\">the original game&#8217;s box art<\/a>. We also found out the <strong>Mario Strikers<\/strong> series could&#8217;ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/super-mario-strikers-originally-started-out-as-a-platformer\">a platforming one<\/a>, and we now know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/monster_hunter_rise\">Monster Hunter Rise<\/a><strong>:<\/strong> <strong>Sunbreak<\/strong> is out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/monster-hunter-rise-sunbreak-gets-a-release-date-and-new-amiibo\">on 30th June<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-march-19th\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}